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Yesterday’s conviction is the latest twist in Brunskill’s spectacularly public humiliation and fall from grace.

Known for his bonhomie and his trademark bowtie, he was renowned for his flamboyance and slick professional confidence.

But in July last year, Brunskill was jailed after he admitted 20 offences, all against schoolboys.

Judge Batty, who sentenced Brunskill, said he had shattered the lives of the boys he had abused and their families.

The Carlisle hearing last year was told Brunskill’s offences included: Sexually grooming a boy near Penrith; seven charges of sexual activity with him; nine offences of indecently assaulting a teenage pupil boy at Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, where he was an
English teacher in the 1970s; three of indecently assaulting a younger boy there.

The court heard Brunskill’s interest in motorsport allowed him to befriend the schoolboys and once he had done so he committed a series of sexual crimes on them.

Brunskill was banned indefinitely from having unsupervised contact with anyone under 16 and banned from working – either paid or voluntarily – in any position that might bring him into contact with young people.